Terrestrial adaptations in the Anomura (Crustacea: Decapoda) Author Greenaway, P. School of Biological Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia p.greenaway@unsw.edu.au text Memoirs of Museum Victoria 2003 2003-12-31 60 1 13 26 https://museumsvictoria.com.au/collections-research/journals/memoirs-of-museum-victoria/volume-60-issue-1-2003/pages-13-26/ journal article 10.24199/j.mmv.2003.60.3 1447-2554 10665487

Table 4. Assimilation of food components by Birgus latro fed on artificial diets. Data from Wilde and Greenaway (2001, and pers. obs.). Diets consisted of starch, coconut, sunflower seed, hazelnuts and bran ground and blended into an agar base. The crab diet was prepared from dried and powdered Gecarcoidea natalis blended in agar.

		% assimilation
	High fat diet	High	Crab
		carbohydrate	diet
Dry matter	75.5	71.7	64.7
Lipid	96	87.4	70.8
Carbohydrate	98.1	99	89.4
Hemicellulose	68	45	–
Cellulose	52	17	–
Lignin	51	18	–
Chitin	–	–	92.8
C	82.1	72.7	64.5
N	69.4	65.2	–